Appalachian Summer was recorded live at The Black Box Arts Center in Shepherdstown, WV by Matt Robinson, Earth Vibe Productions with sound by John Bloomquist. The cover photo is by John Bloomquist.

The concert features some very old songs like “Barbara Allen”, mentioned in 1666 by Samuel Pepys (London, England) in his famous diary; Terry’s version is one she heard her grandmother sing. “Wraggle Taggle Gypsies” comes from Scotland, “Sail Away Ladies” is a fiddle …Read more

by Terry Tucker & Will Killeen, Freya Hogue, Erika Eigen, David Stoll

This recording was done in one take before a hanging microphone in a flat in London. Appalachian songs and blues have never sounded better; gorgeous vocal harmonies, brilliant slide guitar, autoharp, banjo, bass, harmonica, full of life and rocking!

Molasses includes all three members of Sunforest - Terry Tucker, Freya Hogue and Erika Eigen plus Irish guitarist, Will Killeen and composer David Stoll on bass. Will's guitar is always just right, driving, rhythmic and memorable and when you think you can't get happier, he plays Mississippi Delta-style slide. Freya's guitar backs Will's leads, blues harp and clawhammer banjo. You'll hear her 12 string and strong vocal on the Appalachian "Nottymun Town", her harp on "I'm …Read more

Story

Written In London many years ago, inspired by the Renaissance period of classical music. This "Overture to the Sun" is on our Sunforest album The Sound of Sunforest and in one of Stanley Kubrick's films, A Clockwork Orange. I wrote different arrangements for each; this track is from the Sunforest album. I am playing harpsichord on the second part of this - our manager, Vic Coppersmith managed to bring one into Olympic Sound Studios for this recording.

by Terry Tucker & Danske Dandridge

Poems by 19th century poets, Danske Bedinger Dandridge and her cousin, Daniel Bedinger Lucas brought to life with music by Terry Tucker. The poems inspired the music which now, almost two centuries later, gives the poems their due.

All poems but the first and last are by Caroline (Danske) Bedinger Dandridge, 1854-1914. She was born in Copenhagen, Denmark when her father, Henry Bedinger III was the first U.S. ambassador to that country. Her cousin, Daniel Lucas Bedinger, 1836-1909, wrote the first and last poems on this CD. Terry Tucker composed the music, bringing the lantern into the poet's' garden and illuminating the poems. Hover over the word 'story' to read details about …Read more

by Terry Tucker

Gratias, Amen! sounds like Handel if he wrote singles. A tribute to a musician, It features piano, organ, trumpet, French horn and full choir. It's recorded live in a church sanctuary, so the acoustics are great, the energy is high and alive.

Gratias, Amen! sounds like Handel if he wrote singles. A tribute to a musician, It features piano, organ, trumpet, French horn and full choir. It's recorded live in a church sanctuary, so the acoustics are great, the energy is high and alive.

NOTES

Gratias, Amen! Thank you and goodbye, dear friend. This arms-open tribute starts with piano and organ, then trumpet and French horn and when the choir comes in, it keeps building until the organ climbs from the depths of its range to the heights prompting the all-out response from all instruments and voices, "Gloria! Gratias! Amen!
Dedicated to Barbara King, organist and music director for Shepherdstown's Presbyterian Church and St. Agnes Catholic Church

by Terry Tucker & session musicians

Warner Brothers

Warner Brothers

Here is a pop version of my "Overture to the Sun", which is in the film, A Clockwork Orange, also in the album, The Sound of Sunforest. "Terry Tucker's Orange Clockwork" was released by Warner Brothers as a single in the 70's.

This arrangement is over-the-top 70's; you may very well love it. It was distributed to juke boxes in England and one pub in Halifax, West Yorkshire had a chap who came in every day, sometimes twice, to play this song. I played piano, but most of the inspiration for the arrangement came from Vic Coppersmith, Sunforest's manager, dear friend and creative soul.

by Terry Tucker & Ardyth Gilbertson

No restraining choir directors touch here, but lively, lusty, earthy carols that have stood the test of time long before muzak and shopping malls peddled the carols that we mostly hear today. Details of each carol are there when you hover over 'story'.

These carols from the folk traditions of Britain, Germany, Spain, France and the Appalachian mountains of the U.S. are ancient, some from pre-Christian traditions. The melodies are suported by drum, tambourine and other percussion, piano, alto recorder and autoharp, Terry has been collecting carols for many years and she and Ardyth have been singing and arranging them long enough to want to share them with you.